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Thank you, Guy, for putting our deep and intensive conversation into this format--easier to read than an increasingly narrow comment box! And the material benefits from that expansion, since it is complex ideas. I'm looking forward to having the whole playlist as a backdrop to some sorting of stuff on the physical plane, and letting ideas sort on the imaginative.

Reading it all the way through again, I have no doubt of your good will and respect for me. I had made some notes prior for an episode of my own putting it into a larger context. This makes it much easier to link to your beautiful format and start from there. It's a great gift to be in dialogue with someone willing to 'stay with the trouble' (title of a friend's book) until it's understood.

I appreciate you and your reader in Spain!

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Hola, Tereza.

You're welcome. As we were engaged in it, I felt there was depth of sincerity and honesty about the search. That is why I wanted to share it. So glad you see it that way too. Amazing.

Stay with the trouble! Yes. That is where the gold nuggets are found. A guru of one of my teachers said that it is when our resistance to the path is at its most intense, that's when staying with it is most important because behind it is the real juice. He adds that many give up at this time. Michael puts it well. After about 7-10 years of dedicated serious yoga practice that includes the 'real' yoga, the ethics, the seeker will be surprised or even shocked at what level of renunciation the yoga is asking them to commit to. Most turn their backs on that level of letting go, lose their sense of humour and become a super expert in some obscure branch of yoga. This always brings a smile. Maybe because it was, for me, 8 years to the month, that my practice of yoga led me to renounce my work and become this strange version of a 'monk', up on the side of mountain in a country I had absolutely no interest in visiting, let alone living.

In a kind of synchronicity this morning I listened to Michael Stone quote JC from the Gospel of Thomas:

(2) Jesus says:

(1) “The one who truly seeks does not cease seeking until s/he finds.

(2) And when s/he finds, s/he will be dismayed.

(3) And when s/he is dismayed, s/he will be astonished.

(4) And then s/he will reign over the All.”

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I'll be editing the dialogue a bit, to incorproate the pictures within the text instead of being linked.

The appreciation is mutual and I'll let my reader know. (I was wondering, today, if you had someone you respected who would be willing to read this and get his/her perspective. I would be curious!)

So far you're the only comment. Although this is a big read, and certainly won't be to everyone's taste.

All the best,

Namaste

🙏❤️🧘🏿‍♀️❤️🙏

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